Genesis 3:7

The eyes of them both were opened. What irony lies in these words, which record the fulfillment of Satan’s ambiguous promise! The eyes of their intellect were open — they realized that they were no longer innocent. Their physical eyes were open — they saw that they were naked.

And made themselves aprons. Standing ashamed in each other’s presence, they sought to evade the disgrace of their nakedness. Their fig-leaf aprons were a pitiful substitute for the radiant garments of innocence they had forfeited. Conscience was at work. That this feeling of shame had its root not in sensuality but in the consciousness of guilt before God is evident from the fact that they hid themselves from Him.

The only ancient inscription that shows some resemblance to the story of the Fall of man as told in the Bible is a Sumero-Akkadian bilingual poem which says, “The maiden ate that which was forbidden, the maiden, the mother of sin, committed evil, the mother of sin had a painful experience” (A. Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des alten Orients [Leipzig, 1930], p. 99).